A former Villanova University student already convicted of sharing nude photos of women online has allegedly victimized another woman — a university professor who fears it will be impossible to remove all of the photos from the internet.
Tyler John Jones, a 32-year-old father, secretly siphoned racy and nude photos from the cellphone of a professor who was a friend of his ex-girlfriend, according to a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit filed Friday in New Jersey.
According to the plaintiffs’ lawyers and the lawsuit, Jones, a carpenter from Philadelphia, had been posting the photos online for two years, apparently just for the thrill of it.
“I feel like part of my identity has been taken away,” the plaintiff, identified in court documents only as “JG,” of Gloucester County, New Jersey, told The Post on Friday.
“I want criminal charges to be filed against him and I want other women to know what a despicable person he is so this doesn’t happen to anyone else,” the woman said.
According to the lawsuit, JG, 28, first met Jones in April 2022 through her friend, Tsai Islam, who was in a relationship with Jones at the time.
According to court documents, the plaintiff learned in December 2023 that Jones had been sharing photos of her “in her underwear or partially or completely nude” online.
According to the lawsuit, he set up a messaging group under the name “College Professor Exposed” and shared photos of JG with them on apps like Discord and Telegram.
“I think he really enjoyed the thrill of sharing her content, knowing it would hurt her and that he was on the verge of getting caught,” JG’s lawyer, Daniel Salkiewicz, told the Post.
According to the lawsuit, JG learned of the situation when a friend told him that someone had sent her photos on an anonymous Instagram account, writing, “She has a pretty face and an even better body…it’s hard not to want more?…nice…again?…again?”
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff filed a police report and hired an attorney within two days.
Law enforcement agencies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment seeking confirmation that criminal investigations were underway in those states.
According to the complaint, JG eventually discovered that Jones had asked to borrow her phone, taken pictures stored on her device with his own phone, and then airdropped the images between devices.
Even after JG and Islam confronted Jones about his unusual behavior, Jones continued to post photos of JG, doing so on a daily basis, the lawsuit alleges.
A tearful 29-year-old Islam, who goes by the pronouns “they/them,” told The Washington Post that he was unaware at the time of the crimes the suspect committed.
JG, who runs a photography business and teaches at an unnamed university, said in his lawsuit that when he searched the internet at the time, he was “shocked to see dozens, maybe hundreds, of my photos circulating online.”
Jones “disseminated Plaintiff’s private content so extensively that Plaintiff will likely never be able to completely remove her nudes from the Internet,” the paper charges.
JG is suing for at least $150,000 in damages for each “intimate image” of her that Jones allegedly shared online.
Islam said she dated Jones for two years before she found out what he had done to her friend, but that Jones had previously told her about his criminal record.
But Mr Islam said Jones assured him he had changed and grown as a new father and would never do it again.
Jones pleaded guilty in 2013 to secretly taking photographs of three women, including a 17-year-old minor.
He hid his iPhone in the bathroom of his Switzerland, Pennsylvania, home and filmed women getting changed. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported..
He then returned to his dorm room and posted the images to a pornographic website. CBS News.
Jones was a sophomore at Villanova University in Pennsylvania at the time.
JG’s “life has been destroyed by the defendants’ intrusion and callous disregard for her privacy,” her new lawsuit alleges.
According to the lawsuit, she now suffers from sleep disorders, worries about new photos of her being posted online and has had to take prescription medication “to ease the anxiety and paranoia” caused by the online attacks.
Szarkiewicz said his client “He will never have a sense of justice until he faces the crimes he has committed.”
Jones did not respond to The Post’s request for comment Friday.
